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Obama welcomes Syrian scientist featured on HONY

US president comments on seven-part picture story of a scientist who lost seven family members in missile attack

Web Desk December 11, 2015

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Humans Of New York (HONY) has once again melted the heart of President Barack Obama with his latest picture story of a Syrian scientist.

HONY posted a seven-part picture story of a scientist who lost seven members of his family in a missile attack at his residence in Syria.

"Nobody was around to help, so my son had to carry the pieces of his mother and sister out of the house. He was fourteen at the time," one of the captions read.

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The man is left with only two children and a PhD but the degree has not been of any use to him as Turkey, where he is currently living, does not allow him to work without a residence permit.

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With each picture there was a heart-wrenching caption, which moved millions, including the president of the United States who in his comment welcomed the scientist along with his children to Michigan.

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While the president's heart-warming comment received over 120,000 likes, Brandon Stanton restored our faith in humanity.

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COMMENTS (1)

R | 8 years ago | Reply Heart wrenching! I hope he gets treatment for his cancer and his family prospers again. No one should have to go through such an ordeal. Though, maybe if you hadn't encouraged, trained and equipped the rebels there just to satisfy your vendetta against Assad, they would not have this war on their hands and none of this would have happened, huh, Barry? Talk about hypocrisy.

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